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In a previous post I
commented on how to create a read-only bind mount out of a read-write
mount. That approach only works if your distribution does a mount
-a during boot. As Fedora uses systemd to initialize the
filesystems, this trick stopped working quite a while ago.

I finally found another trick to get my read-only bind mount. It's
a hack, but it works for me in Fedora 20. First create the bind mount
as usual, with an entry in /etc/fstab like this:

It appears many HP laptops (including my dm4-2035br) boot Linux
kernels with KMS enabled with the screen backlight set to zero. The
screen appears blank, but you can see the image if you shine a
flashlight on the screen.

If you have the this problem, you can workaround it by adding the
following kernel command line:

video.use_bios_initial_backlight=0

How to do it varies from distribution to distribution, but on Fedora
you can hit TAB on the installer screen and type it after the other
options.

If this solves the problem for you, it might be a good idea to file
a bug in Kernel Bug Tracker
(under ACPI product).